“Made in the Machine” Session 4: Industry City Field Trip

Agenda

2:30: Optional stop at LightsUp. 148 39th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn.
3:30: Makerbot. 147 41st Street, 3^rd floor.
4:30: Eyebeam to discuss your March 3 presentations. 34 35th St., 5th floor, Brooklyn.
Class will probably end before 6.
I will send an e-mail with my contact info in case you can’t find the group.

Readings and viewings, in preparation for our field trip next week:
- This chapter on the invention of the fax machine by Henry Petroski’s Invention By Design.
- This chapter on the assembly line in the 21st century from America’s Assembly Line by David Nye. (I will post the link by this weekend.)
- Optional: watch Print the Legend. We might watch some of it in class in March.
Propose your Phase 1 fabrication project, due March 3. Since you have two weeks, the project can be modest in scope.
- Requirements (see grading sheet here)
  - The project should be of your own design.
  - The project should explore the unique capabilities of your fabrication machine.
- Please outline your project plan (similarly to last week’s “Concept to Reality” exercise)
  - Problem or challenge you are trying to address
  - External factors and constraints
  - R&D: Existing related projects and techniques
  - Your solution and its innovations or novelties
  - Your plan for design and prototyping